Felitaur Enterprises, Putty SSH

Overview
Goals: Understand how SSH provides a "terminal window" where all your commands (pine, cd etc) are run on a remote machine, and the results display on your "terminal window". Realize that Putty SSH, or the ssh command line, only allows you to connect to a remote machine, it does not provide you with email (pine) or a text editor(vi). It does not even give you a command line, it JUST connects to a remote machine, and allows that remote machine to provide you with all those functions/programs inside the terminal window. Understand how to use Putty, ssh and other programs to connect to a remote server, such as lampbusters.com Commands: ssh username@lampbusters.com (Linux) ssh -l username lampbusters.com (Max OSX) "start" "programs" "putty" "putty.exe" (Mouse clicks in Windows)
Using Putty SSH Client on Windows
Download the putty.exe file from the Putty homepage (link below, should already be installed at school) If you downloaded putty yourself, put it wherever you can remember the location Then find the putty.exe file and double click on it. Here at MCC you would do... "start button(icon in lower left corner)" -> "programs" -> "Putty" -> "Putty" Then up in the hostname area put "lampbusters.com" in the left pane you will see a "connection"option choose that and then: for the "set keep alive" option to 90 instead of 0 (this will keep the connection from timing out) then click back on "session" at the top of the left pane and then hit the "connect" button at the bottom of the window First time it will ask if you want to accept the key, click on "yes" when the screen opens and you see login: Type in your lampubsters.com username and hit enter Then type your password and hit enter If all goes well, you will see a menu that I've set up for my web scripting students, just type the number of the option that lets you exit to the shell. You're good to go.
Using SSH on the Linux or Mac command Line
Linux Open up a terminal window ("Applications" -> "Accessories" -> "Terminal" in any modern Gnome Desktop) Type ssh username@hostname (for school, ssh username@lampbusters.com ) First time you connect it will ask if you want to accept the key, type "yes" and hit enter when you see login: Type in your lampubsters.com username and hit enter Then type your password and hit enter If all goes well, you will see a menu that I've set up for my web scripting students, just type the number of the option that lets you exit to the shell. You're good to go. Mac OSX Open up a terminal window ("Applications" -> "Utilities" -> "Terminal" may be the way on Mac OSX??) Type ssh -l username hostname (for school, ssh -l username lampbusters.com ) the -l may not be needed for Mac First time you connect it will ask if you want to accept the key, type "yes" and hit enter when you see login: Type in your lampubsters.com username and hit enter Then type your password and hit enter If all goes well, you will see a menu that I've set up for my web scripting students, just type the number of the option that lets you exit to the shell. You're good to go.
References
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